GOP mega-donor and real estate developer Al Hoffman Jr. says he will not write another check to Republicans until that pass an “assault weapons” ban.

The New York Timesreports that Hoffman made this announcement via an email that he sent to Jeb Bush and Gov. Rick Scott (R), among others. Hoffman was a major contributor to the George W. Bush presidential campaign. He also donated more than $1 million to a PAC supporting Jeb Bush’s failed presidential campaign bid.

Hoffman wrote, “For how many years now have we been doing this — having these experiences of terrorism, mass killings — and how many years has it been that nothing’s been done? It’s the end of the road for me.” He added, “I will not write another check unless they all support a ban on assault weapons. Enough is enough!”

Hoffman did not define an “assault weapon,” did not say whether it is a set type of firearm or just any rifle that has the cosmetic features banned by Democrats from 1994-2004. It must be noted that the Democrat ban did not ban the rifles, only the cosmetic features. Is that what Hoffman has in mind?

[…..]On Saturday’s “MSNBC Live,” Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL) stated that “some freedoms are going to have to be given up” to ensure unstable people don’t get weapons and that he will agree to act on gun control, but “not necessarily for normal people.” He also expressed uncertainty as to whether people should be allowed to own AR-15s and argued for making schools harder targets.

Rooney said, “Well, we are one of the most open societies in the world. I think that each one of these heinous crimes raises the bar and makes us — compels that we, as a nation, rethink where we are on our open society versus what are we willing to do in restricting freedom to make sure that we’re safe and secure. Very unstable situation here, when someone like a person of this demonstrated mental illness, at the local level and even to the FBI, could get ahold of an assault weapon, we’ve got to think about that.”

He added, “I think this raises the bar significantly, that a person of this demonstrated debility could get ahold an assault weapon, that so many warning signs at the — at all levels of government would go unanswered, and that he could just walk right into another soft target school. We’ve got to harden up these schools. Too many schools have been plagued.”

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Jim Baker

Real Liberal logic at play …. IF it looks bad so lets ban it. But “AR” does NOT stand for “assault rifle” or “automatic rifle.” The AR stands for ArmaLite Rifle, the company that designed it back in 1950’s. AR-15 style rifles are NOT “assault weapons” or “assault rifles.” So banning such firearms is banning something that looks BAD. Take a Ruger 10/22 it shoots a .22 cal 40 grn round and AR-15 shoots a .223 cal 55 grn or 62 grn round. Will we be banning 10/22 that have a Style kit applied that does not change the shooting ability at all?

Banning the AR would cost the Fed’s 100’s of Billions of dollars in reimbursements to owners. Beside many have store away a few 80% lower receivers that cost $40 and only take $250 in parts to assemble a completely untraceable weapon.

GOP hacks, RINOS equal BO / HIll / Bush jewish freemasonic NWO globalist swampies. The GOP party is in turmoil because there are so many traitors loyal to banksters, illuminati, secret society shysters that are losing control and not wiling to go to the left. There is talk of a new party for these people as their cover is blown and the jig is up regarding their patented pathway to politics climbing the freemasonic staircase from cub scouts to demolay to freemason to college fratboy to govt. Game is over for these blue bloods and they know it now. MAGA.